Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:44:55 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@eclipse.net.uk> To: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> Cc: FreeBSD-isp@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Re: Finding what user's previous password was. Message-ID: <375FB347.678E2667@eclipse.net.uk> References: <199906092223.SAA83399@bilver.magicnet.net>
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> > ..or it's still in /var/backups/master.passwd.bak > > However it's encoded. To prove the the user that it had > not changed you'd neet to take the password the user thinks he > had an encrypt it with the same salt - otherwise you have one > chance of 4096 of them matching. Unless you copy and paste it to the master.passwd file and get him to try logging in with it :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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